What's the difference between deniable and denied?
Deniable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being, or liable to be, denied.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can also easily argue that a well-targeted attack is low-cost, readily deniable and saves lives by disrupting the enemy.
(2) Baltic states With large ethnic Russian populations in the Baltic states, Putin could test Nato through hybrid warfare: a mixture of cyber-attacks, propaganda and deniable interventions.
(3) The armed seizure of the Crimean parliament, the cynical insistence that Russian troops were not operating in Crimea when they clearly were, and the breakneck speed and flagrant violations involved in organising the Crimean referendum at short notice have been hidden behind a thread of plausible deniability stretched infinitesimally thin – and a knowing smirk on Putin's face.
(4) And there are times when it is useful to have a few hundred plausibly deniable troops, such as the Chechens who went into Ukraine last year to stiffen the Donbass separatists’ resistance to Kiev’s army.
(5) His hands stay clean and his deniability remains plausible.
(6) Hear clip 1 (54s) Clip 2: On alleged links bewteen Clifford Norris and John Davidson "Clifford Norris was never going to admit to anything; the minute he does that, the boys are in the dock ... and he'd be in the dock for perverting the course of justice, so he's covered that way, everything is deniable.
(7) If a person at the top can claim plausible deniability, as conservatives defending Christie seem to posit, even in the face of opposing common sense and evidence, then so can Clinton.
(8) The advantage of psychological operations was their deniability – important for a regime that wanted to maintain its international respectability.
(9) Right now, he must be laughing fit to burst – in a plausibly deniable way.
(10) Expect to see this play out in snide, deniable, but nonetheless bitter actions for months to come.
(11) The gap between what happened and what's said in political-speak is usually huge, but eminently deniable – so we must be grateful to Ed for admitting there was such a gap.
(12) Russia's spy agency is waging a massive undercover campaign of harassment against British and American diplomats, as well as other targets, using deniable "psychological" techniques developed by the KGB, a new book reveals.
(13) They certainly have the financial benefits of publishers, but the openness of their platforms also gives them plausible deniability of responsibility for what users publish should they need it.
(14) It adds that Russia was behind the hack of Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails and released them to WikiLeaks for reasons of “plausible deniability”.
(15) As the Iraqi forces nominally in charge of the fight for Tikrit billed their operation as a dry run for the more difficult, upcoming fight for Mosul – Iraq’s second largest city – the new US air strikes on Tikrit raise questions about the anti-Isis war moving formally toward US-Iranian cooperation, with a fig leaf of Iraqi coordination for mutual deniability.
(16) Shapps, the deniable voice of his blander Downing Street master, isn't alone in his wish to cow BBC journalists.
(17) This complacent, half-hearted, bureaucratic reaction to Kremlin ruthlessness is accompanied in the west by affectation of surprise that the Russians don’t play by the rules of the game and have hit on a formidable new modern form of “hybrid warfare” that will take some getting used to – television, rapid rebuttal, paramilitaries, special units out of uniform, funnelling of funds, arms, and equipment to local proxies, plausible deniability of involvement, the cultivation and bribery of political Trojan horses within the enemy camp in Europe.
(18) "They then said it is better in those situations that the students, the tourists, know, but not too much … I started off saying written consents would be better but they said be careful because deniability is important."
(19) As Garry Kasparov, the Russian democracy campaigner and former chess world champion, put it brilliantly : “As with most disinformation, the goal is to create doubt and deniability, to cast evidence as personal or partisan, a post-truth world.” In the president’s conceptual scheme, what is opposed to “fake news” is “the truth”, but you can’t handle the truth.
(20) Stearns at one point asked her if the letter was an "empty threat" and asked her if she was about "plausible deniability".
Denied
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Deny
Example Sentences:
(1) He still denied it and said he was giving the girl a lift.
(2) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
(3) It was with unanimous consent.” He denied that Trump’s tweets had played a part, saying: “No, no, no.
(4) The White House denied there had been an agreement, but said it was open in principle to such negotations.
(5) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(6) Greek officials categorically denied the report with many describing it as a "joke".
(7) In practice they are so elastic that they have been used to deny pasta to besieged Gazans.
(8) It felt like my very existence was being denied,” said Hahn Chae-yoon, executive director of Beyond the Rainbow Foundation.
(9) The government has blamed a clumsily worded press release for the furore, denying there would be random checks of the public.
(10) Crushing their dream of denying healthcare to millions of people will put them on that road to despair.
(11) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
(12) However ITV deny that any approach or offer, formal or informal, has been made.
(13) To organise society as an individualistic war of one against another was barbaric, while the other models, slavishly following the rules of one religion or one supreme leader, denied freedom.
(14) He denied that the probation service budget, which has been protected so far from 23% cuts, would be a particular target, but said it was not yet making the same level of savings as was being required of the police.
(15) Nepalese workers building stadiums for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar have been denied leave to attend funerals or visit relatives following the earthquakes in the Himalayan country that have killed more than 8,000 people, its government has revealed.
(16) Authorities in most cities – from Chita in Siberia to Makhachkala in Dagestan – denied permission for the rallies.
(17) Planned Parenthood denies the accusations, saying it donates fetal tissue to medical research companies at no cost.
(18) However, a spokesperson for the Department for Communities and Local Government denied any reports of a rift with the Treasury.
(19) There were numerous reports of looting and tampering with evidence, although rebel authorities angrily denied them.
(20) It could bring down the prime minister, though he denies it.